Dubai market research
Soloren
Writes the Dubai market research on this site, working directly from the historical DLD transaction record rather than listing portals or agency commentary. Every figure published here is reproducible from the same dataset the site's tools run on.
Research guides by this author
One Dubai building, many prices: what a building median does not tell you
How much sold prices vary inside one building, and what to check before trusting its median.
Does the building price above its neighbourhood? Usually not, and that is the wrong question
Why the average building matches its area, why hundreds do not, and how the two medians get compared wrongly.
The fastest growing Dubai areas by AED/sqm, and why the top of that list is not about prices
Why area growth rankings measure the sales mix, which areas actually moved, and how to tell the two apart.
Dubai sales fell in H1 2026, but the headline number counts a data outage as market behaviour
The first year-on-year decline in five years, separated from both seasonality and a month of missing records.
Dubai property prices over the last 10 years, from the transaction record
A decade of Dubai sales volume and prices, area by area, and why the citywide average misleads.
The off-plan premium in Dubai is smaller than the citywide number suggests
Why the headline off-plan premium is a mix effect, and what the per-area median actually shows.
Studios cost more per square metre than one-beds, and less in total
Price per square metre and total price rank studios and one-beds in opposite orders, in area after area. Which one to use, and when.
Villa AED/sqm often sits below apartments in the same area, and that is not the same as costing less
Why lower villa AED/sqm does not mean a cheaper villa, and which area comparisons are too thin to trust.